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Is Representative Government Democratic ? |
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| รหัสดีโอไอ | |
| Creator | Tawitra Jerajar |
| Title | Is Representative Government Democratic ? |
| Publisher | Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Kalasin University |
| Publication Year | 2557 |
| Journal Title | Political Science and Law Journal Kalasin Rajabhat University |
| Journal Vol. | 3 |
| Journal No. | 2 |
| Page no. | 1-21 |
| Keyword | Representative Government, Election, Democratic, รัฐบาลแบบตัวแทน, การเลือกตั้ง, ประชาธิปไตย |
| URL Website | https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/gjournal-ksu |
| Website title | Governance Journal, Kalasin University |
| ISSN | ISSN 2286-9328 (Print) |
| Abstract | Nowadays no one can deny that democratic regime is widely being acknowledged the most legitimacy regime in the world. Presumably, the reason of this is democracy provide a many significance kinds of participation to citizen, and also yield chance to citizen to desire their government. The one kind of participation is election; it means that government is elected by people. Moreover, Heywood claims that the form of elective system is a basically modern understanding of democracy; this also has been progressed by mainly the Western industrialization. It might be said that the modern acknowledge of democracy is related to representative government because of the election. Therefore, it could be accepted that representative government seem to be a democratic government because of the election. In other words, the elected government is representative government by means of voting of the majority people. Furthermore, Heywood says that representative government is likely to show that this is the best kind of indirect government, which has been occurred at the moment. Therefore, It has been accepted that the representative government is a part of democratic regime. Besides, following from the book of Urbinati mentions that representative government is democratic because representation is even compatible with democratic, in democratic regime can contribute political judgment. It means that Urbinati seems to believe that representative government can contribute political judgment as the same time. On the other hands, Manin's book disagrees that representative government is democratic. For example, according to Manin’s claims that representative government is seemed to be an elective aristocracy. This is because representative government is more based on a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic components. Thereby, the main purpose of this essay will especially look at whether representative government is democratic or not democratic. By mainly focusing on both Nadia Urbinati's and Bernard Manin's books, which is related to this issue and also provide the relevant reason. Thereby, the main obviously question will be discussed in essay: is representative government democratic? This essay has been divided into six main pa1ts. In the first place, this essay will talk about the overall conception of representative government. This section will look at the definition of representative government in both broader and narrower senses by means of perspective of history. The second section will focus on democratic by means of examine in historical sense. Moreover, in the section t will concentrate on representative government is democratic. By mainly looking at the book: representative democracy: principle and genealogy that written by Nadia Urbinati. Afterwards, this section would like to talk about the book: the principle of representative government, which written by Bernard Manin. In this book argues that representative government is not democratic, but it is aristocratic instead. The final section is the standing point of this book, which will be represented in the conclusion. |
